Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 - Natural history |
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... usually not bilobed or branched .... 6 6A . Internal axis absent . Sclerites are mostly spindles ... Cavernularia elegans 6B . Internal axis present . Sclerites are mostly ovals . Cavernularia dayi 7A . Colonies elongate clavate ...
... usually not bilobed or branched .... 6 6A . Internal axis absent . Sclerites are mostly spindles ... Cavernularia elegans 6B . Internal axis present . Sclerites are mostly ovals . Cavernularia dayi 7A . Colonies elongate clavate ...
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... usually with 2-6 terminal teeth .. 18A . Polyps number 20-40 , generally arranged in 10-20 pairs with 5-7 mm intervals of bare rachis between each pair . Colonies very delicate , usually < 120 mm in length ... Calibelemnon sp . 18B ...
... usually with 2-6 terminal teeth .. 18A . Polyps number 20-40 , generally arranged in 10-20 pairs with 5-7 mm intervals of bare rachis between each pair . Colonies very delicate , usually < 120 mm in length ... Calibelemnon sp . 18B ...
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... usually less than 3 mm in length , bifurcate . Terminal teeth short and conical to deltoid or broadly lanceolate and acute . Inside of each tooth often with a fleshy rounded pro- tuberance near the apex . A monospecific genus restricted ...
... usually less than 3 mm in length , bifurcate . Terminal teeth short and conical to deltoid or broadly lanceolate and acute . Inside of each tooth often with a fleshy rounded pro- tuberance near the apex . A monospecific genus restricted ...
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absent Actinoptilum molle Adjacent polyps Alcyonaria Amphiacme abyssorum Anthoptilum Anthozoa Atlantic autozooids axis Balss Calibelemnon calyces calyx calyx teeth Cape Town Cavernularia elegans Cavernulina coast cosmopolitan distribution D'Hondt depth Diagnosis Colonies distal Distichoptilum gracile Distribution Fig dorsal dredge Echinoptilum echinatum Echinoptilum macintoshii elongate Entire colony False Bay Family fauna G. C. Williams genera genus Grasshoff Halipteris Herklots Hickson Hubrecht Indian Ocean Indo-Pacific J. A. Thomson Kölliker Kophobelemnon stelliferum Kükenthal & Broch Kükenthal 1915 leaf Linnaeus Lituaria Material mesozooids micrographs of sclerites minute ovals Mozambique Namibia Natal numerous Pallas partim Pasternak peduncle peduncular Pennatula inflata pennatulaceans polyp leaves Polyps arranged proximal portions Pteroeides isosceles quadrangular R.V. Meiring Naude rachis record region retractile Scale sclerites Sclerites from surface Scleroptilum sea pens Siphonozooids South Africa South African Museum southern Africa specimens surface of peduncle synonymy tentacles terminal teeth three-flanged spindles Tixier-Durivault Transkei trawl type locality Type species Veretillum Verrill Virgularia schultzei whorl